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"en.20060426.15.3-188"2
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"Mr President, whereas there is much to be said about the deficiencies in budgetary discharge here in the EU and within the institutions, I wish to focus on national misuse of EU funding. There is a deception I have to say being perpetrated on both the regions of Europe and the EU by some national governments, not least the government of my country, the United Kingdom.
EU funds are required by Article 11 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999 to be truly additional, and not deployed to replace domestic funds. Yet this is not how EU funds are being applied. I have in my hand a letter from the Finance Minister in my region which admits that EU funds acquired for Northern Ireland are diverted instead directly into the UK central Exchequer and are thereby used to reduce the level of UK-wide taxation and borrowing that is then necessary.
That defeats additionality and cheats a region like mine out of funds intended by Europe to provide true additional expenditure there. I would therefore call for the regulation governing the new financial perspective from 2007 to expressly require Member States to demonstrate that true additionality is delivered to the regions in whose name funding is claimed from Europe. Only then will the objective of obtaining genuine economic impact be secured for those regions. This cheating of the regions has gone on for years. Now is the time to bring it to an end."@en1
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